THE DUNEDIN CAMP

Colonist, Volume LVI, Issue 13456, 30 April 1914, Page 4

THE DUNEDIN CAMP

A WARLIKE ATTACK

Dunedm, April 29. The bi<r tactical exercise which forms tho climax of the military manoeuvres this year book place this morning on an area east of the Taieri river, under the scrutiny of General Sir lan Hamilton, Inspector-General of Oversea Forces. The idea was that Westland, of whom the troops in camp are part, were ,at war with Eastland. and were advancing through a hilly country south of. Middlemarch ; to attack the whole -A Eastland, The chief umpire was Col. A W Robin,-C.8., C.M.G., and the senior'umpires for the invaders and invaded /respectively were: Invad**B' ■Lieutenantfcblonel G. N- Johnston RE.; invaded, Lieutenaiyt-Colonel the Son B. H. Collins, D.S.O. . I ally '00 spectators went from Dunedin and about 300 from Middlemarch to witness the "battle." . General Hamilton was very congratulatory in his remarks to the officers after the manoeuvres. After lunch there was a march past. Before the General left a P^, of Te™" toriak da.need a haka, which greatly amused General Hamilton. ~ General Hamilton returned to.town to-morrow.